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Ron Price, disgraced member of the Rockingham County Board of Education (“I don’t have anyone to hold my Bible for me” he lamented meekly when he was sworn-in this past December), has filed a lawsuit against fellow former school board candidate Richard Moore and Moore’s wife Debbie in retaliation for the Moores trying to hold Price accountable for his stealing campaign signs on the night before last November’s election.

Here’s the story that’s being reported in today’s Reidsville Review.

In filing this suit, Ron Price is grievously breaking the law – and subsequently is violating the oath he took when he was sworn-in to serve on the Board of Education – by attempting to “punish” others for practicing their rights under the Constitution.

And good money sez that The Knight Shift blog and Yours Truly will be getting hit soon too, as the supposedly “Christian” Price lashes out ...

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You know what? At this point, I’m starting to just not care anymore. America seems so hell-bent on its own destruction that nothing your or I can do would do anything to stem it. I don’t even know if anyone can make the case that this country is worth defending anymore, because what is there to defend? So much has been taken away already.

The American Conservative has a sobering article about how much easier it has become for President Bush… or any ensuing president… to declare martial law. And how it seems that our elected officials are completely indifferent to it. And the likelihood of this new power to be abused.

And it will be abused, no doubt about it. Politicians can not resist using power, if they know that they can get away with it. And there is really nothing left to stop them from doing it (Fred ...

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“President Bush says he has directed federal officials to conduct a national inquiry into how to prevent violence by dangerously unstable people.”

He can start with those who want the war in Iraq because as Einstein put it: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.

For me, the red flags started going up yesterday when Senator Charles Schumer from New York said that he wanted mental health workers to report to the federal government on who is “mentally ill” for the express purpose of the feds denying them the right to own a gun.

For one thing, this is a knee-jerk reaction. For another, the existing gun laws are adequate already… maybe too adequate. For yet another, no matter how much law gets passed, eventually someone is going to break it and cause something like the incident at Virginia Tech ...

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See those ads for John McCain that pops up every now and then? I didn’t put them there. Didn’t want them and don’t ever want them. In a few hours they should hopefully go away for good.

This blog will not be used to promote any presidential candidates. Unless there is one that really, really impresses me with sincerity, humbleness and ability. But that will not be John McCain or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or just about any of the other “front-runners” we’re supposed to buy into.

Up ’til now, the ads that have appeared on this blog, I really didn’t give much thought to them. That’s changing starting now. If there is an ad for something that I don’t approve of that’s appearing on here, it’s going to get zapped off the site....

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Some good news out of the high court, for a change.

But the Supremes still insist that there is a “constitutional right” to have an abortion.

Partial-birth abortion is one of the most stomach-turning things you could ever imagine. I’m glad that this ban is being upheld. But abortion is still legal. And I don’t know if Roe v. Wade will ever be overturned in the foreseeable future. As I’ve noted here before, there are too many people on both “sides” of the abortion debate who have too much to lose if abortion simply “went away”. The so-called “right to choose” is one of the things keeping “feminists” attached to the Democrat party and opposing abortion is one of the the few things that have the “evangelical Christians” maintaining a tenuous connection to the Republican party.

You know, abortion and the war in Iraq have something in common: in ...

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I remember, back in the day, when people in some quarters would lash out at President Bill Clinton for “crashing” a solemn occasion like the memorial service for those killed in a senseless act. And, they were right to do so. Clinton had to show up and be in front of the camera and become the focus of attention at a completely inappropriate time. It was all about “me me me” to Clinton.

I watched practically the same thing happen today. Just a different President is the only thing notably different. And this time I’m hearing many of those same people swooning over how this President is “wonderful” and “is so compassionate”.

This President won’t even attend the funeral of any service member who has died in his war. But he will show up – with a speech that he most likely didn’t or couldn’t write on his own – ...

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State reps in Michigan want to give each child in that state a free iPod, courtesy of the taxpayers of that state.

That has to be one of the worst and most stupid proposed abuses of government power that I’ve ever heard of. The Detroit News expresses blunt outrage in an editorial about the proposal, that says it better than I can here.

You know, if this goes through, these Michigan politicians are going to be encouraging crime. Think about this for a minute: free iPods for people who might ordinarily not be able to afford an iPod. Well, is the government of Michigan going to be getting iTunes for all of those people to go along with their new iPods? Probably not. These kids will have an MP3 player but no MP3s. And the music for those iPods has to come from somewhere…

So if this goes ...

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Earlier this morning I wrote about film director Bob Clark and his son being killed by a drunken driver a few nights ago. I had some suspicions about what happened but didn’t “air them” at the time. I said that I was waiting to hear some solid word before saying anything else.

Well, it hasn’t appeared on any news websites yet but I am getting confirmation this hour that Hector Velazquez-Nava – the man who killed Bob Clark and his son Ariel – not only had three times the legal blood alcohol limit… but he was also an illegal alien.

A talented artist and his son are no longer with us, because our elected officials refuse to do a damned thing about our porous border with Mexico.

These are the same people that George W. Bush is fighting tooth and nail to grant amnesty for, by the way.

How many ...

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James Dobson is saying that possible presidential candidate Fred Thompson is not a Christian:

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson appeared to throw cold water on a possible presidential bid by former Sen. Fred Thompson while praising former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is also weighing a presidential run, in a phone interview Tuesday.

“Everyone knows he’s conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for,” Dobson said of Thompson. “[But] I don’t think he’s a Christian; at least that’s my impression,” Dobson added, saying that such an impression would make it difficult for Thompson to connect with the Republican Party’s conservative Christian base and win the GOP nomination.

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Thompson, took issue with Dobson’s characterization of the former Tennessee senator. “Thompson is indeed a Christian,” he said. “He was baptized into the Church of Christ.”

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